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There’s big prize money at stake as well as gaining entry to other worldwide competitions. For teams that are consistently winning, competition is often a route to bigger adventures: travelling the world like rock stars, opening a restaurant or catering business, launching a BBQ sauce and much more.

Ben Merrington, Grillstock co-founder, said: “Competition barbecue needs to be your new favourite hobby. It’s a legitimate excuse to hang out with your mates, playing with fire, cooking meat and drinking beer and bourbon for 48 hours. And if you compete at Grillstock, you get to listen to some awesome live music too.”

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More attention is paid to a piece of meat in competition BBQ than in any kitchen anywhere in the world. Pitmasters will sit up all night babysitting their brisket, rubbing, spritzing, basting to make sure they present eight perfect slices to the judges the next morning.

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“Sitting by the smoker back in 2009, we dreamt up the idea of bringing competition BBQ to the UK,” said Jon Finch, Grillstock co-founder.

“The plan was simple, create something that would gather mates and strangers together to drink, eat, laugh and listen to great music. We were just two ordinary blokes with the simple need to have a good time and smoke some meat.”

It’s not just all about the meat though. Grillstock also boasts multiple music stages with over 30 live music acts and DJs, dozens of the very best food trucks, epic street theatre, BBQ masterclasses, eating competitions and plenty of festival bars to help wash everything down.

We’ll be bringing the music announcements ahead of this year’s festival in the coming weeks.

If you want to enter the festival’s King of The Gill competition email KOTG@grillstock.co.uk and to find out more about the festival visit the event’s website.